Nationality Triumphs Over Humanity?

Bikash Choudhury


World Peace lost 1st potential benefactor in former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and may loose 2nd potential Global Peace activist in current US President, Barak Obama; if, American people continue to take him to task; that would weaken his Presidency.
Current US problem on economy and unemployment is not of his own making. Rather, Obama inherited a sliding economy and an indebted nation as legacy of former President Bush Jr.;American people instead must back Obama to the hilt and let him resolve the residual problems of last century threatening Global Peace.
Job Creation in American economy and rest of the World would much depend on the quantum of global funds being diverted from un-productive defense expenditure to more productive developmental expenditure. Global defense expenditure stands at whopping 1.5 trillion dollars in 2009 at current prices. Most of the nation states produce huge quantity of arms and ammunitions at the expense of their own under privileged people due to the “vicious cycle of arms race”. Human species is considered most intelligent on this planet; however, produce weapons that could destroy whole human civilization in a factor of four. This is because ‘ego of nationality continues to triumph over humanity’.
World needs a towering personality of Barak Obama’s ability & perspective to aggressively pursue peace and development in the world. And, that would be in the interest of American economy, both in short term and in the long run. USA & India, two large democracies can be natural partner not only for faster development of economy but for global peace on mutual interest.